If you know me, you’ll know that I adore baked goods, Pixar films, and german shepherds. At work today, a joyful man brought with him the most adorable german shepherd I’ve ever seen. Okay, so every german shepherd is the most adorable one I’ve ever seen, but still… This was one good lookin’ dog. I had to go and ask his owner all about him, of course!
While talking to the owner, I found out that the dog’s name was Guinness, he was 4 years old, and he weighed 110 pounds. He was a service dog for his owner because his owner had narcolepsy. Apparently, whenever his owner would have an narcolepsy attack, the dog can sense it 10-15 minutes before it happens and grab his arm with his mouth. That way, the owner knows it’s coming and can take his medicine to prevent it from happening. The dog keeps the owner’s medicine around his neck and is allowed to travel with him everywhere. I mean everywhere. Because of Guinness, the owner can do everything normally– drive, travel, be independent. He takes a trip every summer with Guinness, and this year they were traveling up the west coast (they live in the D.C. area).
Guinness is allowed to go everywhere his owner can.. like on an airplane! He doesn’t even sit in the cargo area– he sits right on a seat next to his owner. Best part is, he doesn’t have to buy a ticket for his dog! Just talking to the man, I could get a sense of how much love and adoration he had for his dog. He really admired Guinness! I mean, who wouldn’t? I made a comment about how large Guinness’ ears were, and the owner replied, “Those ears? Want to see how large they REALLY are?” and pulled out his wallet. Inside his wallet, he had a picture of Guinness from when he was 8 weeks old with ears that were half the size of his head. I just about died from cuteness overload. Apparently, Guinness’ ears stuck straight up when he was 7 weeks old and didn’t even flop. Talk about a perfect dog. Gahhhh. I’m dying for a german shepherd even more now.
Well this recipe has no relation to my story whatsoever, but I just had to share it with you. Dogs are such amazing creatures and have amazing abilities. I’m still in awe of how they could train a dog to catch things like that and alert the people when we can’t sense anything ourselves. The owner also told me that before he got the dog, he used to have episodes every month. Now, he hasn’t an episode in five months. His episodes are much farther apart because of Guinness, and it’s because of him that the owner can do everything he does.
Oops, I got sidetracked again. Back to the cupcakes. The oreo at the bottom was a nice surprise and the cake was nice and fluffy. The sour cream kept the cakes nice and moist, and went well with the bits of oreos. You can also mix in some crushed oreos into the frosting, if you want.. but I just opted to throw some on top.
- 1 package (18.25 oz) plain white cake mix
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 30 Oreo cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin tin with 24 paper liners.
- Count out 12 Oreos and separate the top and bottom wafers. Make sure both sides have some of the icing on them. Place one wafer, icing side up, in the bottom of each liner. Set aside.
- Crush the remaining 18 oreos by putting them in a ziploc bag and using a rolling pin to roll over the bag.
- Place the cake mix, sour cream, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Blend with an electric mixer on low speed for 30 seconds. Then, scrape down the sides of the bowl.
- Increase the mixer speed to medium and beat 1 1/2 minutes more. Measure out 1 1/2 cups of the crushed oreos and fold them into the batter until well incorporated. Set aside remaining crushed oreos for garnish.
- Fill each lined cup 3/4 of the way full with the batter and bake for 18-20 minutes.
That is such an awesome story about the German Shepherd. They are great dogs. And I love it every time you post Oreo recipes. 🙂
I make cupcakes with the Oreo at the bottom a lot because my kids like them so much and get super excited every time they “find” the Oreo!
Your cupcake recipe sounds great, I’ll have to try that next time!
a person can never go wrong with something baked and tasty or a pixar movie and esp a german shepard! they ARE the best dogs! Thank u! so many people these days like little dogs. i like big dogs 🙂
what an incredible story! thanks for sharing!
haha, this shows dogs are truely man’s best friend. Love your Oreo cupcakes! Yum! 🙂
gorgeous cupcakes!!! I love the oreo in the bottom!
Beautiful cupcakes! I made cookies & cream brownies yesterday on this insane craving so it’s funny to read your post now!
My friend raised a seeing eye dog throughout college. They have to learn something called respectful disobedience so that if their owner starts walking into a street, for example, and a car is coming, the dog knows to run in front of his owner and not allow his owner to keep walking! It’s amazing what German Shepherds can do!
These look amazing! I am bookmarking this page to try these!!!
These cupcakes look amazing!! I can’t wait to try them. 😀
I love dogs too..that’s such a wonderful story (is it epilepsy?).
I made these the other night and they were SO awesome! Thanks for the recipe! 🙂
I agree, dogs are seriously amazing. And I love these cupcakes! Anytime I see cookies & cream anything I want to have it mmm.
The cupcakes were great! I used half apple sauce and half oil. I then substituted greek yogurt for the sour cream. They didn’t take as long to cook and were so delicious. My fiance loved the cookie at the bottom! Will make again!
My friend introduced me to your blog today and insisted that we bake these. They are AMAZING, I brought my half over to my boyfriend’s house and within minutes they were gone!
They were so easy and fun to bake :] I love your blog and your recipes!
Just popped these in the oven! The batter tasted divine. I’m from Australia, so the different measurements caused a bit of a confuffle, but apart of that everything was great! Thanks kim for the recipe!
I’ve made these twice now and they are great! The second time I made them I made half using white cake mix and half using chocolate fudge cake mix. The chocolate fudge were an even bigger hit than the white cake. I will definitely make these again. Thanks!
My 9 year old grand daughter requested cookies and cream cupcakes for her Birthday party. Found your recipe on Pinterest and they were a great hit. Her party was at the local pool and we brought the ice cold cupcakes to the pool and the children loved them. Now I am making them for the second time. Thanks for posting